Word: peak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once a conical chimney of belching fire and fury, the great peak of Iran's Mt. Demavend, towering 18,600 ft. high in the Elburz range north of Teheran, has long reigned in quiet white dignity. But hidden deep beneath Demavend's base, primeval subterranean fires still rage. In a few minutes, one day last week, in a gargantuan effort to adjust to the fury deep within the earth, a vast arc of the earth's crust, curving out some 250 miles on either side of Mt. Demavend, shuddered and heaved in a mighty earthquake that laid...
...three months ago, marched into Washington for a rally last week, and it could hardly have picked a fitter time. Reason: last week the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that its retail price index had crept upward for the ninth month in a row, hitting a record peak of 119.6 (the 1947-49 average = 100) as compared with 115.4 a Year...
...seems to have heeded publishers' arguments that newspaper ads command greater attention than TV commercials. While TV's ad revenues have jumped $452 million in the past two years, daily newspaper advertising in the same period grew by a record $610 million, and in 1956 logged a peak total of $3.3 billion, v. TV's $1.2 billion, also a record.*Said Editor & Publisher in January: "Advertisers' 'splurging adjustment' to TV is over...
BRITISH AUTO COMEBACK is smashing records after slump last year (TIME, March 26, 1956). In May British weekly output rose to peak of 19,094 cars, 37% ahead of same month last year. May exports climbed to 41,612, beating threeyear-old record by 7%. U.S. is receiving record 8,000 British cars a month, for first time has replaced Australia as British automakers' best overseas customer...
WROTE Alabama's Senator Black in Harper's in 1936, at the peak of his fame as a congressional investigator of utility lobbies: "An investigation is precisely what it purports to be-an investigation. Sometimes attempts are made to discredit it by calling it a fishing expedition. It is not a trial based upon an indictment where the facts are already known and merely need presentation to a jury. It is a study by the government of circumstances which seem to call for study in the public interest. And the public hearing is usually, certainly in important investigations...